Since I've been throwing darts at the idea of the best-of list, why not a best-of list you can throw darts at?
Here, according to the elves that run google analytics, are my top ten blog posts from the past year, measured strictly in terms of page views. (Obviously, there are all sorts of problems with this list as a metric of "quality." But as a general introduction to JTMoU, or as a reminder of some things you may have missed, it ain't half bad.)
10. What Passes for Scholarship These Days: Introduction, part one (The first installment in my seemingly endless dissertation-posting series.)
9. We are the world, and we suck (Commentary on the death of Michael Jackson.)
8. The Impossibility of the Avant-Garde (On the pointlessness of trying to be "subversive" in art.)
7. Jazz: the Music of Un-enjoyment (Actually that's an older post, but it was popular this year because of a twitter hashtag. A catalog of shite gigs I have experienced.)
6. No One Dances in New York (My response to Nate Chinen's NYT review of the IJG's Bell House show this past October.)
5. The Funmaker (Lots of pictures of a vintage organ I acquired over the summer.)
4. The Watts Ensemble (The only interview I have done so far: composer/drummer Brian Watson.)
3. Jazz Populi (A response to the Jazz Now project initiated by a consortium of youngish jazz bloggers this past year.)
2. Research & Development (A focus group on the Jazz Now project.)
And the number one JTMoU post of 2009:
1. RIAA breaks guitars, and music in general (An essay on the Joel Tenenbaum case, and the copyright fight as it stands in 2009.)
Many thanks, everyone, for reading, commenting, linking, tweeting, and referencing this year. It's been fun.
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